2) The 787 was dubbed Dreamliner by an online “Name the Plane” contest, and the modified 747 freighters that carry sections of the plane around the globe are called Dreamlifters. What is the “Dream Weaver”?

a) The machine that turns carbon-fiber thread into a fabric that will be baked into the 787’s composite-plastic skin.

b) The code name for the group that developed the 787 concept while Boeing officially pursued another plane, the Sonic Cruiser.

c) A 1970s hit song.

d) The nickname of a Seattle Mariners pitcher.

3) As Boeing’s global partners built factories for this plane of the future, how did the past intrude?

a) Italy’s Alenia had to move scores of 300-year-old olive trees from its factory site.